Westminster dictionary of Christian spirituality

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REF.

248.03

Title     The Westminster dictionary of Christian spirituality / edited by Gordon S. Wakefield
Published     Philadelphia : Westminster Press, c1983
Description     xv, 400 p. ; 25 cm
Note     Published simultaneously under title: A Dictionary of Christian spirituality
Bibliog.     Includes bibliographies and index
Summary The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality is an invaluable reference work. The volume features hundreds of entries, arranged alphabetically for ease of use, on a wide range of people, ideas, and events that have helped to shape Christian spirituality.
Subject     Spirituality — Dictionaries

Add Name/S     Wakefield, Gordon S. (Gordon Stevens)

ISBN 0664213960

Wills – Waking to God’s dream

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262.0017 W

Wills

Author     Wills, Dick, 1942-
Title     Waking to God’s dream : spiritual leadership and church renewal / Dick Wills
Published     Nashville : Abingdon Press, c1999
Description     112 p. ; 22 cm
Summary  Pastor Wills shares the spiritual disciplines and insights he believes account for transforming his congregation from a large church in decline to one growing and reaching out to its community in a variety of creative ministries. Detailing the steps and initiatives that led to this turnaround, Wills demonstrates how personal commitment on the part of the congregation’s leaders and ministers have been the key. Wills gives some excellent and detailed steps to church renewal when the congregation is infected by the vision of what God is doing in their midst.  Wills’ story is a powerful statement on seeking God’s will as a church body.  Additionally Wills’ slim volume packs a powerful message: the key to church renewal is spiritual leadership.   Unlike so many books of this nature, this provides very specific, straightforward steps to building spiritual leadership.

Subject     Church renewal — United Methodist Church (U.S.)
Christian leadership — United Methodist Church (U.S.)
Spiritual life — United Methodist Church (U.S.)

Hybels – Too busy not to pray

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248.32 H

Hybels

Personal Author:

Hybels, Bill.

Title:

Too busy not to pray : slowing down to be with God / Bill Hybels with LaVonne Neff and Ashley Wiersma.

Edition:

Rev. and expanded, 3rd ed.

Publication info:

Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2008.

Physical description:

198 p. ; 22 cm.

Summary:

Too Busy Not to Pray is a classic on prayer, helping Christians slow down to draw near to God. Since first appearing in 1988  the world certainly hasn’t slowed down. If anything, the pace, intensity and number of distractions have only increased. Brokenness and pain seem to have increased as well, with news of civil war, poverty, broken families and sex-trafficking touching us daily. The urgent need for prayer is clear, but busyness still keeps many of us from finding time to pray. Two truths haven’t changed: God is the same powerful, just, holy God he’s always been; and true prayer–prayer that changes us and allows us to participate in God’s work in the world–can’t happen on the fly.  Hybels offers practical, time-tested ideas on slowing down to pray. Revised throughout and including a new introduction and new chapter on prayer and compassion for the world, this twentieth-anniversary edition calls for prayer as a priority and broadens our vision for what our eternal, powerful God does when his people slow down to pray.

Subject term:

Prayer.

Added author:

Neff, LaVonne.

Added author:

Wiersma, Ashley.

ISBN:

9780830834754 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Wangerin – Reliving the Passion

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232.96W

Wangerin

Author     Wangerin, Walter.
Title     Reliving the passion: meditations on the suffering death and resurrection of Jesus as recorded in Mark
Publisher     Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992.
Descrip.     156 p.
Summary         The meditations in Reliving the Passion, which received a Gold Medallion Award in 1993, follow the story as given in the gospel of Mark—from the moment when the chief priests plot to kill Jesus to the Resurrection. But these readings are more than a recounting of events; they are an imaginary reenactment, leading the reader to re-experience the Passion or perhaps see it fully for the very first time. As only a great storyteller can, Walter Wangerin enables the reader to see the story from the inside, to discover the strangeness and wonder of the events as they unfold. It’s like being there.
ISBN             0061043060

Coles – Spiritual Life of Children

CELC

291.4083 C

Coles

Personal Author:

Coles, Robert.

Title:

The spiritual life of children / Robert Coles.

Publication info:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

Physical description:

xix, 358 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Summary:

In this eighth and final volume in his Pulitzer Prize­winning Children of Crisis series, Coles examines the religious and spiritual lives of children. By using children’s own words and pictures, Coles presents their deepest feelings.

Coles goes a step beyond any of his other inquiries and shows us children–Christian, Moslem, Jewish, secular–face-to-face with the idea of God.

Subject term:

Children–Religious life.

ISBN:

0395599237

Tags:

child development, childhood, children, education, Faith Development, family, parenting, psychology, religion, religious life, sociology, spiritual, Spiritual Formation, spiritual life, spirituality

Buechner – Faces of Jesus

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709 B

Buechner

1989

Personal Author:

Buechner, Frederick, 1926-

Title:

The faces of Jesus / text, Frederick Buechner ; photography, Lee Boltin ; design, Ray Ripper.

Variant title:

Life of Jesus

Publication info:

New York:  A Stearn/Harper & Row Book, c1989

Subject term:

Jesus Christ–Art

ISBN:

0060692603

Tags:

art, Christian, Christian Art, Christian Living, christian mysticism, Christianity, emerging church, faith, Jesus, Jesus Christ, portraits, religion, religious art, Spiritual Formation, spirituality

 

Peck – Bed by the window

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FIC P
Peck

1990

Personal Author:

Peck, M. Scott (Morgan Scott), 1936-2005.

Title:

A bed by the window : a novel of mystery and redemption / M. Scott Peck.

Publication info:

New York : Bantam Books, c1990.

Physical description:

306 p. ; 22 cm.

Summary:

Among those within the self-contained world of the Willow Glen nursing home are two extraordinary people. One is there to give care, the other to receive it. Yet together they form a band of love and trust that transcends their expectations and changes their lives. Violence shatters Willow Glen as a murderer roams the halls of the home, and the residents and staff must confront a truly terrifying evil and face their innermost fears, suspicions & darkest secrets.

Peck is also the author of the self-help best selle, The Road Less Traveled.

ISBN:

055335387X

Subject terms: Mystery–Fiction.

Redemption–Fiction.

Osteen – Your best life now

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248.4 O

Osteen

2004

Personal Author:

Osteen, Joel.

Title:

Your best life now : 7 steps to living at your full potential / Joel Osteen.

Publication info:

New York : Warner Books, c2004.

Physical description:

x, 310 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Enlarge your vision — Enlarging your vision — Raising the level of your expectancy — God has more in store — Breaking the barriers of the past — Increasing in favor — Living favor minded — Develop a healthy self-image — Who do you think you are? — Understanding your value — Become what you believe — Developing a prosperous mindset — Be happy with who you are — Discover the power of your thoughts and words — Choosing the right thoughts — Re-programming your mental computer — Power in your words — Speaking life-changing words — Speaking a blessing — Let go of the past — Letting go of emotional wounds — Don’t let bitterness take root — Let god bring justice in your life — Defeating disappointments — Find strength through adversity — Getting up on the inside — Trusting god’s timing — The purpose of trials — Trusting god when life doesn’t make sense — Live to give! — The joy of giving — Showing god’s kindness and mercy — Keep your heart of compassion open — The seed must lead — Sowing and growing — Choose to be happy — Happiness is a choice — Being a person of excellence and integrity — Living with enthusiasm.

Summary: Best selling pastor, Joel Osteen, combines personal experience with Biblical teaching in an upbeat, accessible style to show seven steps to practical personal growth regardless of denomination.

Subject term:

Self-actualization (Psychology)–Religious aspects–Christianity.

Subject term:

Success–Religious aspects–Christianity.

ISBN:

0446532754 : 19.99

Ortberg – Life you’ve always wanted

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248.48 O

Ortberg

Author Ortberg, John. Title The life you’ve always wanted : spiritual disciplines for ordinary people / John Ortberg. Publisher Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, 1997.

Descrip. 234 p. 22 cm. Notes Paperback ed. Summary This ECPA best-seller focuses with humor and sparkling anecdotes on three primary questions: what does true spiritual life really look like?; what hinders me from living such a life?; and what practices can help me pursue such a life? The Christian life is about more than being forgiven, more even than making it to heaven. The heart of Christianity is about a God who isn’t just concerned with our “spiritual lives,” but who wants to impact every aspect of living as if Jesus Himself were the one living it. Alt Title Life you have always wanted ISBN 0310226996

Ortberg – God is closer than you think

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248.4 O

Ortberg

Personal Author:

Ortberg, John.

Title:

God is closer than you think : if God is always with us, why is He so hard to find? / John Ortberg.

Publication info:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2005.

Physical description:

198 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

God’s great desire — Where’s Waldo? — Life with God — The greatest moment of your life — A beautiful mind — Waldo, Junior — Spiritual pathways — As you wish — When God seems absent — The hedge.

Summary:

What Are You Waiting For? Intimacy with God can happen right now if you want it. A closeness you can feel, a goodness you can taste, a reality you can experience for yourself. That’s what the Bible promises, so why settle for less? God is closer than you think, and connecting with him isn’t for monks and ascetics. It’s for business people, high school students, busy moms, single men, single women … and most important, it’s for YOU. God Is Closer Than You Think shows how you can enjoy a vibrant, moment-by-moment relationship with your heavenly Father. Bestselling author John Ortberg reveals the face of God waiting to be discovered in the complex mosaic of your life. He shows you God’s hand stretching toward you. And, with his gift for storytelling, Ortberg illustrates the ways you can reach toward God and complete the connection—to your joy and his.

Subject term:

Presence of God.

Subject term:

Christian life–Presbyterian authors.

ISBN:

0310253497 (hardcover : alk. paper)